Google Removes View Image Button

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Google has entered an agreement with Getty Images that calls for them to remove the view image button from all of Google's photo search pages. In turn Getty is dropping all complaints against Google for anticompetitive behavior. Google image searches just won't be the same anymore and you'll have to go through more steps to save a photo from this point forward. Thanks modi123.

The photo biz complained that photographs shown in the advertising goliath's search results were unfairly offered in full high-res formats, as opposed to small thumbnails, and that the snaps could be easily saved via the "View image" button and ripped off without any attribution or royalty payments. This in turn slashed traffic to Getty's websites and subsequent sales, it was claimed.
 
Ah that explains things... last night I was trying to figure out the name of this one Cars character my kid has (was actually bugging the fuck out of me) and none of the websites had "view image"... BECAUSE I DONT WANT TO GO TO YOUR FUCKING WEBSITE THAT MORE LIKELY THAN NOT ISNT FOCUSED ON THIS IMAGE!

.... and I never figured out what the name of the character is, saw a youtube video where some dude had a massive collection and saw it, but he did not talk about every name.
 
Even very modest roadblocks such as this can be surprisingly effective.
 
This is actually a much larger issue of individuals/organizations failing to give accurate credit and compensation to the sources of their content. People forget that since the internet is so big and expansive that someone had to create those original content images at some point. If you think it's easy to download a song or a movie, stealing images is almost like breathing. Even when images are hidden behind crafty html and flash type screens, you can just print screen and steal the images anyways. While this has enabled an internet full of colorful vivid images, it's pretty much given the actual content providers next to nothing in return for them. Google inherently as a search engine has always taken advantage of content, and their image search feature has been an extension of that abuse. While you may argue that anything that comes online should be fair game, the vast majority of job working tax payers will say the opposite.

Still, for some reason it just doesn't quite feel like breaking the law when I right click or screen copy an image I want to use for something. It just happens to feel more in line with pumping the gas a few miles an hour over the limit while speeding.
 
Doesn't actually work all the time, sometimes you want the full resolution image and this will only take you to the cached lower res version
Right click, then view image. I'm sure some userscripts will popup because of this if they don't already exist.
 
Been using Bing for awhile now since Google added mandatory filters. I don't understand why Google insists on digging its own grave.
 
Why would Google need to drop the view image button for non-getty images ... so so dumb.
 
While annoying, I get it.

People have long been in the habit of freely using any image they can find in Google image search for any purpose they please.

I've had my photography stolen and used for various for profit purposes.

People need to understand that every single image on the internet has an owner and it is not OK to use it without explicit permission.

Not for a business, not for a webpage, not even for a meme or joke or for personal use, not for any purpose without seeking out who owns it and asking for their permission.
 
While annoying, I get it.

People have long been in the habit of freely using any image they can find in Google image search for any purpose they please.

I've had my photography stolen and used for various for profit purposes.

People need to understand that every single image on the internet has an owner and it is not OK to use it without explicit permission.

Not for a business, not for a webpage, not even for a meme or joke or for personal use, not for any purpose without seeking out who owns it and asking for their permission.

This doesn't change anything, all it does is create one or two extra steps to grabbing an image. Also most of your issues are protected under fair use law.

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/qxptplnxqtrhme965gal.jpg
 
While annoying, I get it.

People have long been in the habit of freely using any image they can find in Google image search for any purpose they please.

I've had my photography stolen and used for various for profit purposes.

People need to understand that every single image on the internet has an owner and it is not OK to use it without explicit permission.

Not for a business, not for a webpage, not even for a meme or joke or for personal use, not for any purpose without seeking out who owns it and asking for their permission.

There are lots of reasons why it's OK for someone to use your work without your permission.
 
Wow, Google has made themselves less useful then Yahoo!. At least as I type this, Yahoo still has view image as an option.
 
I used a small image on a company's website I built in 2003 that was listed in a public domain site. Twelve years later that company got contacted by Getty telling them they infringed on their copyright and had to cough up $800 or get sued.. I attempted to communicate with them and it was like talking to a bill collector. What a nasty person. The fact they were a small mom & pop shop and I was just an individual helping a business out (for free) didn't matter to them. Cough up the money or get sued. I offered to pay the money but the owner said no. I need to find out what he did.
 
Pull Up Bing/MSN search random picture.... View Image still there /phew

This is how Bing will take over the internet X-D
 
This is absolutely absurd. "I don't like people saving and printing stuff I write without paying me my cut, so in your search results I demand you remove the print button" In fact let's just gimp every other function of a browser to appease some corporation. WTF
 
People need to understand that every single image on the internet has an owner and it is not OK to use it without explicit permission.
I think it is uploaders who need to understand fair use laws and that they can't fully control an image after it is published on the internet. It seems to me that memes fall under fair use, as parody.

Criticism, commentary, news reporting, education, research, and parody, can all be considered fair use. And where I live, even personal use is fair use. (making a copy of a copyrighted work for your own personal use)
 
While annoying, I get it.

People have long been in the habit of freely using any image they can find in Google image search for any purpose they please.

I've had my photography stolen and used for various for profit purposes.

People need to understand that every single image on the internet has an owner and it is not OK to use it without explicit permission.

Not for a business, not for a webpage, not even for a meme or joke or for personal use, not for any purpose without seeking out who owns it and asking for their permission.
So... now they just click "visit" then view the image that's on the page and steal it?
 
Been using Bing for awhile now since Google added mandatory filters. I don't understand why Google insists on digging its own grave.

Because every one else is handing them the shovel.. those same companies are to scared to go after Microsoft though.
 
If you still want the images, then right-click on the image - click Copy Image - paste that into Paint - Save it. It will be saved in the number of pixels shown below the image(s).
 
A few days ago I ran an image search for a recent entertainment event. I found images on multiple sites freshly posted right from the paps. I noticed the very same images with the Getty watermark showing up in the search that were time stamped as being posted hours and days after those without the watermark. After doing several other, more directed, image searches, I found similar instances of openly published non-watermarked pics mixed with Getty watermarked images that were otherwise identical yet posted later. I fail to see where Getty has grounds to stand with regard to a good number of pics they appear to claim as their property under the circumstances!
 
Ah that explains things... last night I was trying to figure out the name of this one Cars character my kid has (was actually bugging the fuck out of me) and none of the websites had "view image"... BECAUSE I DONT WANT TO GO TO YOUR FUCKING WEBSITE THAT MORE LIKELY THAN NOT ISNT FOCUSED ON THIS IMAGE!

.... and I never figured out what the name of the character is, saw a youtube video where some dude had a massive collection and saw it, but he did not talk about every name.
What does the character look like?
 
I know a lot of people are going to say right-click. And yeah that's what I've always done anyway as habit (well and I don't use Goggle anyway). But there are any number of right-click challenged people (some maybe from the old Apple days) who simply will not learn how to right-click no matter how many times you tell them to ("What? You can right click on that?" they say, pretty much every time). So this may actually be an elective way to block some people from copying photos.

I also hate people who try to block you from copying things that can not be copyrighted like Victorian era photos (no matter how much work has gone into restoring them, they are public domain). Just a pet peeve ;).
 
Just right click ON the picture then a menu scroll pops up. Click Image View. Voila! You will see its full size.

OR

Right click ON the picture and see Copy Image Link. Click on it. Then paste the link in url bar open tab/window. There you go.
 
yup, even if the src for the image is buried in a script or a stylesheet, it's still accessible. You can even access the original uploaded image before it was resized in cases where that was done.
 
While annoying, I get it.

People have long been in the habit of freely using any image they can find in Google image search for any purpose they please.

I've had my photography stolen and used for various for profit purposes.

People need to understand that every single image on the internet has an owner and it is not OK to use it without explicit permission.

Not for a business, not for a webpage, not even for a meme or joke or for personal use, not for any purpose without seeking out who owns it and asking for their permission.
No different then you take a photo of me and legally able to sell my photo without explicit permission and how all the animals and tree and min other thing in nature
I personally think Google should just remove all of Getty links and any of there Images
 
Just right click ON the picture then a menu scroll pops up. Click Image View. Voila! You will see its full size.

OR

Right click ON the picture and see Copy Image Link. Click on it. Then paste the link in url bar open tab/window. There you go.
That doesn't always give you the largest available image. Using developer mode/tools will show the full size link to it and the dimensions.
 
Dumb decision.

Wonder if it's possible to have an extension that does the same thing.
 
Ahem!
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they also removed the search for similar images button. you used to be able to do that which would then pull up a search of all the same pic so you could then easily find the largest/best quality one. sucks you can't do that now. doesn't look like you can do it on bing either. might have to try some others.
 
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